Master List of "Stock" Fantasy Races (And Creatures?)

[Mindfire]

Hey, I was thinking about all the "stock" races in fantasy, and I was wondering if there was a place that ever compiled them all. I couldn't find anywhere that had, so I thought it would be something cool to do here. We can start out with sentient/sapient races, and then once we run out of those we can list monsters or animals or what have you. So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and name the obvious ones.

• Humans
• Elves
• Dwarves
• Orcs
• Dragons (usually portrayed as intelligent, thinking creatures in modern fantasy)

 

[Steerpike]

• Gnomes
• Halflings
• Centaurs
• Lizard folk
• Goblins
• Kobolds
• Trolls
• Giants of various kinds
• Gnolls
• Fae (non-elf)

 

[Ireth]

- Vampires
- Werewolves/lycanthropes
- Witches, wizards

(I realize the first two probably count more as monsters, but for some reason the site isn't letting me delete this post. Eh well.)

 

[Shockley]

Ogres
Mermaids
Dryads
Nymphs
Satyrs
'Dark' Elves

 

[Chime85]

Hydras
Sprites
Hunters
<anything in Wow>
Ghosts
Gouls
Goblins
Drakes
Assasins
Warlocks
Seers
Nomads
Hermits
White/dark knights

x

 

[ThinkerX]

I would think there has to be an online copy of the old AD&D 'Monster Manual' somewhere.

That said, Assassins, Hermits, Wizards, Knights, and a couple others are not so much races, as *occupations* taken up by various races.

 

[Lunaairis]

oh there is an online copy of the D&D monster manual- actually you can find it in a surprising number of places.

Kitsune
Angels
Demons
Drakes
Snow elves (<3)

 

[Shockley]

I would think there has to be an online copy of the old AD&D 'Monster Manual' somewhere.

That said, Assassins, Hermits, Wizards, Knights, and a couple others are not so much races, as *occupations* taken up by various races.

Hey now, my mother was Half-Hermit.

 

[shangrila]

Surprised nobody has said Wood Elves

 

[Ireth]

Surprised nobody has said Wood Elves

That's a sub-category of elves, so technically they're on the list already.

 

[CupofJoe]

Hobgoblins [personal fave!]
Ratmen
Troglodytes
Cyclops
and then I start to look things up...

 

[Chime85]

humans yup, I just trolled hehe

 

[Lunaairis]

could we include our own fictional races?

edit: Oh wait-ya sorry, this is for stock fantasy.

 

[Zander]

Shades, possessed, (don't know if could really be counted as a race, but wouldn't really consider them fully human. Mabe creature?). Ents?

 

[shangrila]

That's a sub-category of elves, so technically they're on the list already.

So are Dark and Snow Elves

 

[Queshire]

Speaking of trolling, has anyone mentioned trolls yet? If not, consider them mentioned.

Also, TVtropes FTW!

 

[mbartelsm]

Asians (jk)
Golems
Slendermen
Demons
Angels
Daemons
Kami
Oni
Skeletons
Zombies
Ents/treemen/treefolk/spriggans
Sylphs
Salamanders
Dragons (not humanoid but sapient in many works)
Werebeasts
Wolfmen (think twilight)
shapeshifters

Elves:
Wood
Dark
Snow
Fire
High
Low
Desert

EDIT: forgot a personal favorite, Homunculi

 

[Legal Rose]

Faeries, Pixies, and other small fluttery female creatures.

 

[sugarpixie]

What about fairies and pixies...

 

[Saigonnus]

I always liked the Water Weirds,

Gryphons
Hippogryph
Pegasus
Hippocampus
Lamia
Chimera
Sphynx
Mind Flayers (Illithid)
Rothe (similar to a cow)
Yeti
Remoraz (polar worm)
Imps
Succubus

Those are the ones I could think of off the top of my head.